ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite spirit portrait of “Herbert Wilson and his intended”], Mains James Riley, Von Hasseln
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ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite spirit portrait of “Herbert Wilson and his intended”], Mains James Riley, Von Hasseln
ca. 1860-80’s, [hand tinted tintype portrait of a freckled pastor or minister with a cross]
via Ebay
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman with flowers]
via Jeffery Kraus Antique Photographics, Daguerreotype Collection
ca. 1900, [portrait of Lilla and Cornelius C. Kenney], Halifax Photographic Company
via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute
ca. 1875, [albumen portrait of a smiling couple]
ca. 1870, “The Downs By Moonlight”, [carte de visite portrait of a couple by moonlit waters]
via Ordinary Light
ca. 1900, [portrait of Lilla and Cornelius Cook Kenney]
via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute
ca. 1860’s, [carte de visite portrait of a dashing General Ulysses S. Grant], Matthew Brady
via Ebay Auctions
ca. 1903, [tintype portrait of several women, one with a scratched out face, and two gentleman. Handwritten on verso: “Someone is in love.”]
via Ebay Auctions
c. 1900, [portrait of a couple in front of a paper moon]
via Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Department of Photographs
ca. 1845, [portrait of a gentleman holding his dead wife]
via Exposures: Photography and Death, Audrey Linkman
ca. 1852, “Bank of True Love”, L.N. Rosenthal
via the Library Company of Philadelphia, Comic Valentine Collection
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